726 
HHYNCHOTA. 
Tropiduchince. —Margin of clypeus nor carinate ; basal joint of pos¬ 
terior tarsus long. A small number of species, largely from Ceylon, are 
recorded ; none are yet known to occur in the plains of India. 
Achilince .—Clypeal margin carinate. Eleven species, chiefly of 
Ceylon forms are included herein. 
Derbiince. —Vertex and face of head narrow; apical joint of rostrum 
short. One of the commonest small Fulgorids is included herein, Phenice 
moesta, Westw., found commonly on cane, 
grasses and cereals in the plains. The imago 
sits on the lower surface of the leaves, suck¬ 
ing the juice, the long narrow tegmina 
standing straight out at right angles to the 
body. Drona is not uncommonly represented 
by a reddish form, apparently not recorded 
as Indian, in which the tegmina are long 
and hyaline, the wings very small. Nisia 
atrovenosa, Leth., is probably also com¬ 
mon as we have it from the plains, a small 
ochreous insect in which the wings are of 
more normal size. 
Lophopince. —Basal joint of posterior 
tarsi robust, short. Elasmoscelis platypoda, 
Kby., will be found, a small dark insect, with deepbrown tegmina and 
the anterior tibiae flattened and dilated. Brixioides carinatus, Kby., is 
Fig. 500— Pyrilla aberrans. x 5. (I. M. N.) 
also found in the plains, a small ochraceous insect in which the face is 
dilated in front in two ridges which are noticeably striped. 
Fig. 499— Phenice moesta. 
(I. M. N.) 
